"He got stepped on the fumbled snap on the goal line, but he's fine," Saban said of a play that preceded a 1-yard touchdown run by Eddie Lacy that gave the Tide a 24-0 lead late in the second quarter. "He played with it. It didnt bother him. He could have continued to play if we needed him to. Its bruised."

In fact, McCarron played the first two series of the second half before his day was done.